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		<title>I&#8217;m halfway through it, and disappointed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, June 6th, and I&#8217;m roughly halfway through my sabbatical &#8211; and quite disappointed in my progress thus far. I have managed to fall back into the old habits that I&#8217;ve been trying to change, and I have not yet successfully managed to complete any of the goals I set for myself. Wow, I didn&#8217;t realize how hard it would be to admit that. I have allowed things to get in my way. [...]


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		<title>More on Goals and Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 13:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm not the kind of girl who generally fawns over actors and celebrities.  Personally, I don't really much care about what they do, and I never quite understood what the big deal is with needing to know what they do every day.  To me, they're just people doing their job.  Like anyone who has a job, some do it better than others, some are lazy, some are lucky (probably due to some brown-nosing or something), and some make mistakes.  

But Will Smith continues to fill that seemingly unattainable... thing that many people would like to have, and his celebrity status isn't what makes him the way he is - I think he'd be this way even if he weren't famous.


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		<title>Spring must be coming, because I want to clean.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started my sabbatical officially in October 2009. However, I didn&#8217;t tie up most of my &#8220;loose ends&#8221; until pretty much the New Year. &#60;internal musing>I wonder if that makes it okay to say that my sabbatical actually started January 2010&#8230;&#60;/internal musing> Since then, I&#8217;ve been doing pretty much what I thought I&#8217;d be doing. Nothing. Ohhhh&#8230;. I know that sounds bad. (Well, except for the people that do think that the words &#8220;going on [...]


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		<title>Where to begin?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am, it&#8217;s a Thursday morning, and I feel like I&#8217;m walking back into my office after a looooong painful holiday. That statement is partially true because I actually was away for the holidays, but the painful part is because upon my return, I came down with the flu. I did manage to make it into my office a few times, but I couldn&#8217;t do much that was worth anything (as you can see [...]


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		<title>Putting things into perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, in these first two weeks of the New Year, I&#8217;ve uncovered a few things about myself &#8211; my limitations and expectations, and how reality is meshing with them all. Especially over this weekend, since I&#8217;ve literally been forced to sit in bed with nothing more to entertain me than my own thoughts (well, when I wasn&#8217;t spiking a fever. Dang flu.) Number one is, this first couple of months of this sabbatical have been [...]


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		<title>Changing the mindset for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m terrible. Here it is, January 4th, and I&#8217;m just now wishing everyone a &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221;. I had a reason, though&#8230; I wen to West Virginia to visit with my family and we were down there for almost 2 weeks. My mom doesn&#8217;t have a great internet connection and&#8230; well, we tend to not spend our time with electronic devices anyway. So, that being said, I get &#8220;Inglorious Basterds&#8221; as a present over [...]


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		<title>More on the treadmill desk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to give a little update on my previous posting about my new treadmill desk setup. It&#8217;s still set up the same way &#8211; my husband hasn&#8217;t been able to actually create a better working desk than the current prototype, due to an unexpected garage emergency involving electrical wiring and discussions about suing the dude who did the house inspection before we bought the place because we&#8217;re seriously lucky our house hasn&#8217;t burned [...]


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		<title>Why I moderate comments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people feel that moderation of comments of a blog (such as this) is bad practice, and is performed pretty much by people who believe themselves to be the end-all of correctness. Only people who love themselves and care nothing for other people&#8217;s opinions moderate the comments on their site. (This observation, anyway, is something I&#8217;ve seen in my years as a blog-reader and Twitterer, but I don&#8217;t have any direct references to such a [...]


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		<title>I have a plan. No, really. I swear.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you may have noticed a new layout here on the site, with a big, fat announcement that I&#8217;ve gone on sabbatical. Yes, it&#8217;s true (obviously). The reason I finally decided to do this was because my business was going down one path, while my dreams for my business were leading down another. It&#8217;s been nearly 8 years since I took on my very first client, and I&#8217;ve come to understand why my reality isn&#8217;t [...]


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		<title>Hello, my name is Shelly Cole, and I&#8217;m a web designer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Shelly Cole, and I&#8217;m a web designer. I run a small web design and development company in the Hartford suburb of Simsbury, CT. My goal is to create beautiful and usable websites that connect with people. My passion is finding solutions to challenges that are presented to me. My inspiration is from life, the world, and from you. Related posts:Bloggy vs. Professional I have a plan. No, really. I swear. Make [...]


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